The above is a line I usually trade with my friends, since the nearest friend of mine is a four hour train ride away, the next is a three hour train ride, and the third a two hour train ride (it sounds illogical, but we have to travel into London, then out again on mainlines. If there wasn't a gaping huge river between the first friend and me, 20 minutes tops. And Bury St Ed's is closer than Bedford to me, but still takes longer to get to). The rest are all west country, Midlands and higher. If I don't work with you, I never get to see you, basically.
But I've found myself saying it twice at work in the last 2 days, and not to ex-employees. Customers.
The first used to come in every friday at 7.30. They want their drinks last. They don't mind waiting for their burger to be done special. But the managers they were used to traded out and all the other staff have drifted off and no one remembers they want their drinks after their meals (standard policy is drinks first so the food stays hot) ... so when they came in yesterday about 6 I was kinda happy to see them. They said why they haven't been in for ages, but I was glad I was the one who served them, since I remembered most of their order, and definitely the drink factoid.
The second one was today ... he's a little bit more history, for me. Since for the past four years he flirts like crazy. I went for a job interview once (the interviewer went on holiday and I never heard from them again, which sucks because I aced the interview, had to do some maths and computer work for it) and he was there. Was where I learnt his name, lol. He was asking me out (I've never been able to tell whether he was joking or not) about the time I was making mistakes with boy's dad. And then I went on maternity leave and when I came back he asked where I'd been and I admitted about boy, and he was so rude about boy's dad (which always cracked me up, since he was sticking up for boy too) and then I got sick ... and stopped seeing him come through, since he always came to the restaurant after I finished. So today was the first time in about two years I saw him.
I like it when he comes through on my shifts. He makes me laugh, makes the shifts that much better (and since someone opened a steel door on my head today, I needed it) ... I wish he didn't have a 9-5, would be good to have him come through more often. I've got a couple of late shifts next week ... here's hoping. I don't want anything more than just the chance to laugh, and put him down when he asks for free food (nice try) ... it'd also be nice if he wasn't one of the people who hangs around the back of the store late at night blaring crap music and starting fires, but hey, what can you do?
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